Chapter 117: Xue Yan
Her heart was always beating disobediently, and her breathing was a little difficult.
She pretended to be thirsty and "naturally" withdrew her hand, picked up the teacup in front of her casually and took a sip, staring at the incense burner without looking at him and asked, "Why did King Liang fall so quickly, even if his underground business was exposed, he wouldn't be demoted to a concubine, right?" Even the royal guards who had been protecting him were taken back? ”
The warmth of his palms suddenly shifted, Gu Huaisheng was not at ease, and slowly picked up the somewhat cool tea and took a sip and said, "Because of Xueyan." ”
Xue Yan?
Hearing this name, Tang Yanning was so excited that he almost knocked over the tea on the table, and his eyes became bright, "Have you found Xue Yan?" ”
Gu Huaisheng didn't understand why she was so excited, and explained: "Yes, I found it not long ago, speaking of which, it was because you were able to find it so quickly." ”
"Because of me?"
"Well, because of you, remember the little boy who lost his money bag?"
"Yes."
Speaking of that little boy, Tang Yanning still remembers his appearance, especially those clear eyes, which are as beautiful as a pair of moist jade.
"He's Xueyan's child."
"What?"
Gu Huaisheng briefly explained the causal relationship in the middle in Tang Yanning's puzzled expression.
In fact, Xue Yan's original name was not Xue Yan, but Xue Yan, and she was the granddaughter of Xue Daxue.
is well-read, knowledgeable, and at the age of fifteen, he was assigned to marry the eldest prince and became the princess of Min.
After the two got married, the flounder was deeply in love, and the king of Min did not accept concubines for her, and the good story of the two was once popular in the capital.
But there is an unforeseen circumstance, King Min was unfortunately injured in a dabbling, and then suddenly a vicious illness could not be cured for a long time and finally died, it is rumored that Princess Min could not stand the blow of her husband's sudden death, became a little crazy, and finally took the opportunity to go to the Jokhang Temple to pray for blessings and ran to the forest where King Min was injured and jumped off the cliff to die in love.
At that time, everyone sighed, sighed, regretted, and praised her for her loyalty, and even the emperor was moved to posthumously crown her as the crown princess and buried in the imperial mausoleum in the way of a well-dressed mound.
This good story has been circulating in the capital for a year, and it has been covered by new public opinion......
In fact, Xue Yan did not commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, but was forced.
Less than a month after King Min's death, Xue Yan found out that she was pregnant, and she had been three months old, and she finally eased up a little in the sad days, but she was still sad and secluded in the mansion all day long.
My friend Xu Ruo couldn't stand it and invited her to his house, saying that there was a new tribute dog from the Western Regions in the house, which was very pleasing, so let her go over and take a look, and give it to her if she likes it.
Fluffy and cute little animals always make people have no resistance, and she stroked the dog's soft fur for a while, but she was unexpectedly in a better mood.
It's just that the dog was so active that it disappeared for a while, Xue Yan chased the dog over, but unexpectedly heard the conversation between King Liang and Xu Ruo's father......
It turned out that King Min's injury and illness were all planned by them, and it was not accidental.
They first fed King Min's horse medicine, which caused the horse to be irritable, causing King Min to accidentally fall off his horse during the hunt and suffer internal injuries, and then bought the imperial doctor, added chronic poison to his prescription, and finally caused the disease and died.
Unexpectedly, the third brother who seemed to be as gentle as jade turned out to be such a ruthless person, she was so shocked that she covered her mouth with both hands to prevent the broken sound from coming out.
Unexpectedly, the missing dog suddenly ran out at this time, startling her.
King Liang and Lord Xu hurried towards the rockery when they heard the voice, although Xue Yan quickly ran back, but the dog did not follow her with interest, if they wanted to check, it would only take some time.
Sure enough, as soon as she left the house, she was controlled by King Liang's people, and the servants and maids around her were replaced.
In order to prevent her from going out to tell King Liang that he began to spread rumors about Princess Min's madness, he was imprisoned for half a month, and then took the opportunity to get her out, wanting to kill her quickly.
She pretended to be submissive and followed them out, but in fact she had been secretly watching the opportunity, and finally found an opportunity to run out under their distraction, but there were so many secret guards sent by King Liang, it was not more than enough to deal with her a weak woman, she was forced to have no way out, and chose to jump off the cliff.
Fortunately, she fell into the water, was washed up in a remote mountain village, was rescued by an honest elderly couple, and gave birth to the orphan of King Min safely.
The couple lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, made a living by chopping wood, and had no children under their knees, so they recognized Xue Yan as their goddaughter.
Xue Yan took the opportunity to use the pseudonym Xue Yan and lived incognito in the local area.
The life of the family was originally considered to be peaceful, but the godfather had a heavenly mountain to chop firewood and unfortunately fell into the hunter's trap and died on the spot.
The wife is gone, the godmother is too sad, and soon she will die.
After Xue Yan was sad, she properly buried her godfather and godmother, and took the child to make a living by herself.
Over the years, she has also learned to sew and wash, cook on fire, and even chop wood, and she is no longer the high-ranking princess Min.
She usually makes ends meet by mending seams.
Life is difficult, but I can still survive.
Unfortunately, when the child was four years old, his health was not good, and Xue Yan had no choice but to sell all the valuable things, and finally even the thatched hut that sheltered him from the rain was taken away.
She didn't dare to go back, as long as she went back, she was afraid that she would be intercepted and killed by King Liang's people before she arrived at her father's house, so she had to take her children and continue to nest in this poor countryside.
Later, she was really embarrassed, so she disguised herself and went out of the mountains to see if she could take the opportunity to contact her former friends.
In the upheaval and displacement, she unfortunately contracted the wind chill and coughed every day, but fortunately, the child was strong-hearted and went out to beg every day to bring her some food.
In her previous life, after she recovered from her illness, she planned to go to another place to try the opportunity to see if she could meet her former acquaintances, but unfortunately she was taken away by human traffickers and sent to an underground auction house.
She struggled and cried, but in exchange for the fists and kicks of the traffickers and the threat of evil.
Orphans and widows, powerless and powerless, who cares.
No, she just begged those people to allow her to take the baby.
Naturally, bringing a drag oil bottle can't be sold at a good price, of course the traffickers don't agree, but Xue Yan is determined that she can't be with her children, so she kills herself.
The traffickers saw that although she was poorly dressed and shabby, and her face was sludge, it would be good if she cleaned up like that, so they came up with a plan, and threatened her to keep her son by her side as long as she obediently cooperated with the sale at a good price, and found a servant woman to take with her, and as long as she sent the silver taels regularly in the future, she would treat her son well.
Xue Yan was silent for a while, and finally gritted her teeth and agreed.
Before leaving, he told the child carefully, let her wait for herself, and she would definitely find a way to come out and meet him.
The five-year-old boy was sensible and distressing, knowing that they had met a bad person, his mother was forced to do so, so he didn't cry or make trouble, but just hugged his mother with red eyes and didn't let go.
In the end, the traffickers forcibly broke it open, and when I watched my mother being dragged away, I couldn't help crying.